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NAMM 2012: TC-Helicon has unleashed the VoiceLive Play, a vocal processing pedal that's designed to help you sound like your favourite singers.

To this end, it offers more than 200 song and artist presets, and can also create backing harmonies for you. An MP3 input means that you can easily sing along to your favourite songs.

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We're expecting the VoiceLive Play to cost €249 and be available soon - here's what TC-Helicon has to say about it.

TC-Helicon VoiceLive Play product information

Whether you're at the top of the charts – or just a dreamer with a microphone, VoiceLive Play gives you hundreds of song & artist presets to choose from, helping you create amazing vocals. Plug in your MP3 player and sing along with your favorite tracks or create instant HIT effects for your own songs.

• 200+ song & artist inspired presets
• Plug in your MP3 player to the AUX input and sing along using Vocal Cancel feature
• RoomSense – embedded mics set auto key for harmonies

Sound Like The Pros

Producers spend more time on perfecting vocals than any other instrument, and the number of layered vocal tracks on a studio recording often run well into the double-digits. Now the same care for creating vocals live or at home is available to everyone.

VoiceLive Play gives singers the opportunity to experience the sound they know and love from their favorite songs with ease. Featuring automatic backing harmonies, vocal double tracking, pristine EQ and compression, lush reverbs, hard-tuned robo-voice – all the the goose-bumps-on-your-arm effects that make today's Billboard hit vocals "pop".

Pick a Genre, any Genre

Operating and navigating VoiceLive Play is a breeze. The GENRE button allows you to easily browse hundreds of presets. Choose a style that suits you and VoiceLive Play will list the presets that fit your preference. If you've never used effects before, you'll quickly learn how to find the sound you're looking for with GENRES.

Download More & Make Your Favorites

If hundreds of presets wasn't enough, you'll be able to download new and exciting artist presets each month for free via VoiceSupport.

Should you want to create your own presets, VoiceLive Play offers the simple and intuitive onboard controls to do so. In addition, you can mark any preset as a FAVORITE, creating a personal genre of choice effects for super-fast access.

Make It a Hit

HIT is a performance-inspired feature for building intensity into any vocal performance. Every preset has an effect that you can build upon by pressing the HIT button, which adds additional effects on top. For example, you could start with a simple reverb and then "HIT it" to add dazzling harmonies or a raw megaphone effect for emphasis – excellent for making choruses stand out instantly!

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